2015年六安一中国际班“我与外教”征文获奖作品选登（八）：Golden Time With My Foreign Teacher

Wondering in the small garden located downstairs in my community , I was deeply lost in the beautiful scenery here. It seemed like I noticed the unforgettable smiling cheek on the stamens of the flowers with all kinds of nice shapes and brilliant colors. How time flies! Fall passes immediately and winter comes with the beautiful white snow covering the land. Wonderful memories starded to recompose in my brain and reminded me of my golden days with my foreign teacher. What fantastic days they were!

As a girl in the first year in senior high, I was excited to meet so many lovely classmates and dear teachers. It was a new beginning of my student career, so I wanted to make great success in the first year. But looking at textbooks piled up on my desk, I began to worry about my studies —They seemed too difficult to learn. I just had a question to myself: can I make it ?

When I got the course schedule , something new sparkled in front of my eyes: English speaking classes were added in the teaching syllabus and students were given the opportunities to get in touch with the native speakers. What a wonderful and cool thing! I still remembered telling dad that exciting news in no time when he picked me up after school.

“Daddy! Daddy! I am so excited because one new foreign teacher will teach us English speaking!” I Looked at my father and told him the excellent news with excitement: “ I absolutely believe that you can perform well during the teaching process and improve yourself.” Father replied. I had delicious food made by my parents, wondering how educational the classes will be. After dinner ,I searched for foreigh manners on the internet so that I can leave a fantastic impression on the teacher.

Later soon, it was the day of the first English speaking class and everybody in the lecture room seemed see eye-catching stuff when our male teacher came to the classroom. Both my friends and me jumped to see the teacher clearly.

“Everybody, wow, I can feel your enthusiasm, yet I can’t begin my class without you guys sitting on the chair!” Pretty girls and cute boys, sit down please!” He said to us kindly ,with a big smile on his face.

“For our first English speaking class, I would like to make a self-introducting to all of you.” “J-A-C-O-B, he used chalk to write his name slowly on the blackboard. Instead of teaching us anything in the textbook, he only talked with us in a relaxing and interesting way. He talked about the cultures in America and the funny things he had heard about; And he also encouraged us to be lively in his classes. While we couldn’t understand everything he said and felt hard to memorize his pronunciation, we were still not worried about it at all.

The atmosphere in our class was so great, which was the perfect beginning of the whole curriculum. Before, student might feel stressful and tired after a long time study. Surprisingly, changes happened in our QA section. Every student didn’t feel bored even if they repeated glossary for uncountable times.

One day, one unfortunate thing happened. Our dear foreign teacher wanted to organize a small speech and let everyone try to speak in front of the whole class, of course , I was included and I totally had to no idea how to organize my words and speech structure.

“Any types of topics are accepted. Don’t be shy, Just try. I believe your performance will be excellent and unbelievable.” Our teacher said. When it was my turn to speak.

“Hello, everyone”, I lowered my head and didn’t know how to start such a difficult thing that I had never tried. When Jacob showed his big smile and thumb to me, I began to get more and more relaxed. I received kindness and warmness from teacher Jacob and my classmates .That helped me to be brave enough to have a try. “Maybe, it not that dad?” I thought to myself.

Yeah, it was not that bad and the result is that I made a successful speech. What’s more, this experience has brought happiness and confidence to me.

After this class, I Often took an active part in English spoken classes. I read more loudly than before, put up my hands more often and I also joined study groups to learn with partners. All these changes had a good influence on me. Thanks to the warm encouragement from the teacher and classmates. Usually, Mr Jacob played different kinds of English songs and news reports during the break time, which made us get closer. Actually, he is not only a teacher, but also a friend who shares happiness and sadness with all of the students.

Generally, I have already absorbed much knowledge from Jacob through the half semester. Yes, the golden time with my foreign teacher could be unbelievable and engrossing. All of my classmates get along well with our teacher and wish to make a great progress through these meaningful classes.